Entozoon
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Any of various microscopic parasitic worms previously classified together under the grouping Entozoa. obsolete
"The discovery that a disorder known as "the staggers," of which many thousands of sheep have died annually, is caused by an entozoon which presses on the brain, and that if the creature is extracted through the softened place in the skull which marks its position, the sheep usually recovers, is another debt which agriculture owes to biology."
- 2 any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) wordnet
Example
More examples"The discovery that a disorder known as "the staggers," of which many thousands of sheep have died annually, is caused by an entozoon which presses on the brain, and that if the creature is extracted through the softened place in the skull which marks its position, the sheep usually recovers, is another debt which agriculture owes to biology."
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